Sometimes I would like to return to the days of old timey Christmas gifts. I am washed enough that if you gave me a bundle of super nice oranges I would be PUMPED.
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One of our Georgia member companies sent two giant bags of pecans from Little Duck Farms in Ray City to our office. No one has touched them, so I am taking one bag home with me to Athens for a pie.
I always tell my friends/family that they only get gifts if they’re meaningful or they want/need it, I’m not giving a gift just to give a gift and as a result I have a reputation as a top-tier, if spotty, gift-giver
my aunt sends us a wreath every year, and it's one of my favorite gifts because it's just not something I'd go seek out, but looks so great on my door!
My office has had three different vendors or clients send us boxes of fruit this Christmas season, and it’s been great. A bountiful harvest of pears and apples!
Same, but entirely because mandarin oranges, which used to be a delight, are now absolutely inedible garbage. Risked a box a few weeks back and they were awful.
my grandad grew up during the depression and would always tell the story about how his brother found a hat on the side of the road on xmas eve and gave it to him as his only xmas present. He would tell us this as we were setting up the nintendo or the like.
True fact: Hickory Farms is what we give in our family when we have officially given up on shopping for you because you either have everything, hate everything, or don’t want anything
I read an anecdote about someone moving to rural Alaska and their neighbors gave them a quarter of a moose as a welcoming present and I got weirdly envious. Maybe you're onto something
My mom used to put oranges in our stockings. One year it was a tomato and I asked why. She said it’s technically a fruit and I should stop complaining.
Genuinely: if someone offered me the choice between all the presents my family is planning on gifting me versus the sandwich from this little deli in Austin (I can't remember the name of it) that I ate in 2006, I would take the sandwich.
we just got a gift basket in the mail. the oranges are so-so but we got 'em, along with a few mid apples, some good dark chocolate/mixed nuts. I'll share the oranges w/you if you like
the 4-year-old’s preschool is making clove orange pomanders this week and I’m torn between how charming I find it and how inadequate I feel as a parent for, like, looking around for a paper and markers when they say they “want to make something” here
went pretty standard with this order: choco chunk and chocolate yearner overdrive. eyeing the chocolate caliente for my next order, they were sold out this time around.
I don't recall my parents being enthused, but when someone gave my dad a fruit of the month club subscription I fucking celebrated like our family had just won the super bowl.
They have gift baskets of just that, though I recommend the Harry & David pears for the best fruit EVAH for Christmas. I get it though. My birth family loves my taste in funny t-shirts and has informed that is sufficient. They appreciate my budget as well :-) Making Christmas simple again.
I think giving 'random small prezzies in stockings' is a much underrated skill. My late mother was a whizz at it. This will be my first Christmas without her, I'm 50 and I have no idea where my new socks are going to come from. (Clearly a bit but, I will miss the socks and other oddments).
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One of our Georgia member companies sent two giant bags of pecans from Little Duck Farms in Ray City to our office. No one has touched them, so I am taking one bag home with me to Athens for a pie.
Am also very pumped.
My brother used to complain about socks and underwear all the time as kids and now it's all he asks for.
Socks ain't cheap.
Which reminds me! I need to get my shit together so I can get treats to my neighbors.
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I Like cutting them into coins and frying them up, then on the cracked pepper crackers with a mustard.
incidentally, my family really likes chocolate.